Finally after decades of its existence, it was only on the year 2012 that a potential discovery of the God Particle was made known to the world as “Higgs Boson” .It was derived from the name of two scientists who played an important role for this discovery namely Peter Higgs and an Indian scientist named Satyendra Nath Bose. So crucial is the Higgs boson to accounts of the formation of mass that it has sometimes been referred to as the “God particle.” This discovery of ‘The God Particle’ by the CERN scientists is the hot topic this year.
The Standard Model,
created in the early sixties, is a theory to explain the nature and
behavior of the fundamental particles that make up protons, neutrons
and electrons, which in turn make up everything we see around us. Peter
Higgs postulated that all particles are without mass until they interact
with something called the Higgs Field which explains why some elementary particles actually
have mass.
This experiment was
done in a research center using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the
world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator built by the
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland
.The primary design goals of LHC is to allow physicists to test the
predictions of different theories of particle physics and high energy
physics, particularly the existence of the Higgs boson and its properties.
The LHC physics program is mainly based on proton–proton collisions.
Physicists say the potential discovery of the "God particle"
was a gateway to a new era that could see humanity unlocks some of the
universe's great mysteries including dark matter.
As the celebration is
still on air, India-based
Neutrino Observatory (INO) near Madurai in Tamil Nadu plans to
release a sequel to the Higgs boson. After the discovery of Higgs Boson
it was confirmed that all elementary particles do have a mass, now the
sequel that INO does is to find out how neutrinos do get its mass after
all. These discoveries are major bridges /links that provide us all
about the Universe and how it was formed.
